Currently Reading: Intellectual

[Zargabaath]

I'm currently reading "The Dragons of Kyrnn" by a host of authors.

Why I'm reading this book is because it is a book in the Dragonlance series, it was appealing to my senses, and the short stories within add more to my knowledge of Krynn.

The book deals with tales about dragon(s) in some form. One short story was about a kender (similiar to a Hobbit in frame, except the perfect thief) transforming into a dragon and finding out how hard it is to be a dragon, bugs and birds biting him in flight, how hard it is too land, and not being able to eat meat raw after slaying a cow. One of my favourite short stories so far is about a man who was cursed by a gold dragon (Gold dragons if no one knows are good dragons) to tell the truth no matter what and his dealing with a corrupt baron wanting to get rid of a gnome; who created an invisible volcano detector that has not been seen since he turned it on.

I finally picked up the book again after starting it a while ago.


Edit: I finished the book a few days ago as my newest post on this thread has stated. I must say my favourite short story was the I told above about the Gnome and the invisible volcano detector called Fool's Gold by Jeff Grub. "The Final Touch" by Michael and Teri Williams was a warm tale about a woman's tale of how she took care of a dragon for some time and how she was glad that he was gone. What she didn't know was the dragon came back to see her in disguise and to keep her water bucket warm during the coldest winter nights so it wouldn't freeze. "Honor is All" about a knight enlisted by a town to vanquish a White Dragon that has been seen around, however it had never hurt anyone. After battling the dragon that acted strangley during the fight, he found out that in truth it was a Silver albino dragon and shame befell him. The dragon left him in charge of its child, the knight's wife had the natural ability tending to animals. "The Middle of Nowhere" is about a secluded town of scribes that had seen a dragon fly above and seeked the help from a mage that wasn't the most pleasurable company. The mage asked for a hefty price but the mayor of the town forced him to protect the town for the rest of his life, thinking that the mage did not have long to live. Unfortunately, the mage was alive twenty years down the road, the town was getting restless of paying the big toll to the mage when he has only defeated the one dragon when they first asked for his assistance. The mayor, who finds a bard of great skill, comes up with a plan to kill the mage. He and the bard go to the mage's residence where the bard begins to play, enchanting the mage as the mayor sneaks up and stabs the mage, who calls him a fool before he dies. The mayor goes back to town to give the good news that the mage is dead, however, it turned out that the bard had been a dragon in disguise and was destroying the town. Some of the townspeople asked the mayor about where was the mage's help, he had not been able to tell them before, and he couldn't bring the words out as he stared blankly. The book had a great collection of short stories that fleshed out Ansalon, a continent on Kyrnn.